This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
I’m old enough to remember when Trump supporters were angry that Democrats didn’t clap for a boy with cancer at the State of the Union, but they seem fine with this.
Do it anyways. Why does Israel have control of airspace in Gaza? Enough. History will ask why didn’t anyone stop the bombing and starvation of civilians including children.
Trump is throwing away tens of billions of dollars in services exports by denying hundreds of thousands of international students visas. International students subsidize Americans by paying full freight ~$43 billion. And losing this money will increase our trade deficit as it's considered an export
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Somebody tell Trump if he solves climate change he’ll get a prize with a golden statue of himself.
Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off www.zdnet.com/article/meta... "Some Facebook users have noticed new settings that let Meta analyze and retain your phone's photos. Yes, you read that right." Hurrah for the security and privacy of Native apps!
Was able to make an appointment in Tennessee but Kroger, Walgreens, and the Shot Nurse still don’t have the updated 25/26 vaccine and said I should wait until September.
Do you think he’s being blackmailed or threatened? It’s just insane.
The amount of irreversible damage to public forests that could be done in Alaska alone is simply mindblowing. It's almost as if there's a policy list somewhere: "how to explode US carbon emissions as quickly as possible." 🌍
Project 2025 wants to kill us. “called for ending certain pollution regulations, toxic chemical clean-up programs, and research on the impact of pollution on human health”
AI isn’t just going to kill people in warfare…
The Democratic establishment are running scared of Mamdani and now Platner of Maine. I like Graham Platner’s message and Schumer’s hope for a 77 year old as a Freshman candidate in my opinion is ridiculous.
Tennessee is now banning art history books. pen.org/art-history-...
He’s been on a nonstop vacation. I guess he learned from the best. trumpgolftrack.com
Restricting life saving vaccines but not guns…that’s where we have ended up.
Both of my kids have been in active shooter lockdowns. There was not a person on campus, but situations where an armed person was in the vicinity with shots fired. My kids texting me while crammed in a closet were absolutely important for us. I was able to tell them I loved them and calmed them.
Will the mainstream 5:00 news show the CDC walk out? Historically unprecedented.
Has the CDC staff ever walked out before? 5 alarm fire. Congress needs to act with urgency or do they plan on going down with the ship?
I wouldn’t expect any less from Tennessee and the gun maniacs who demand to have firearms at playgrounds because they are scared of a 10 year old. TN has some of the highest gun violence rates in the country. Disturbing. dailymemphian.com/section/metr...
Just tried to book my updated COVID 25/26 vaccine at two different locations in TN and they are not yet available.
Can you attempt to impeach RFK? Put the legislature on record on whether they are ok with opening up a Pandora’s box of death.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Thank you.
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
Trump is a buffoon. He is not able to exercise such power. The Heritage Foundation has planned this take over for years and has helped elect many people in Congress and the courts.
#chicago #nationalguard #fdt
A normalized American horror where so many thoughts and prayers have been submitted with little action. www.bbc.com/news/live/cl...
If you missed the deadline— it has been extended to August 31. Confirmed via the original USDA news release (www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...). See the Virginia Wilderness Committee on for example comments: www.vawilderness.org/news/letters...
A World Economic Forum survey found that some 41% of companies worldwide expect to reduce their workforces over the next five years because of the rise of artificial intelligence” www.businessinsider.com/recent-compa...
Still curious as to why the Media Bias Chart has not moved NYT towards the right.
It’s simple. Don’t bomb and starve babies. If you can’t speak out against that then American morality and international law has collapsed.
While Murkowski is painted as a fearless leader fighting for public broadcasting, she was one of the deciding votes for the Big Ugly Bill. She has no courage and sold out Alaskans. She could switch parties today, but that would require guts. Alaska will pay dearly. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
A lot of scientists make great discoveries and can’t afford a patent lawyer to get a patent.
Any Democrat running for office should be talking about insurance rates. Climate change and insurance rates will continue to amplify. This is not sustainable. www.cnbc.com/amp/select/h...
And people are freaking out over Mamdani having a couple city run grocery stores. 🤦♂️
I was told that Kamala Harris was going to take away hamburgers. 🫠
So many stories. “Many felt betrayed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — not so much politically as personally. “Calabasas in general has been a huge supporter of his,” Ariella Schrader said. “He’s Mr. Environmental Lawyer, right? I feel completely abandoned by him” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/m...
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
AIPAC has always been a right wing org. It was only until recently did they start dumping tons of money into every Dem candidate and pushing other Dems out.
Finland president Alexander Stubb: “It is a failure of humanity that we have not gained control of the situation in Gaza. What Israel is doing violates all humanitarian law.”
Move over Morgan Freeman
Our President is a walking corpse.
Citizens should start handing them flowers and pots. Hand them paint brushes and paint to help the community. Hand them trash bags to pick up litter. See what they choose.
Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the U.S. effective immediately. France and Austria will follow on Monday. The U.K.'s Royal Mail said it would halt shipments to the U.S. on Tuesday No paywall
Gerrymandering is just the start. There were bomb threats to voting centers. Expect GOP states to limit voting machines and locations. Expect power outages and bullies outside. Expect the worst and figure out how to combat them. In long term Trump voters need to wake up and see that he lied to them.
ChatGPT 5 is trying to tell me that The Lord would approve what Trump is doing because many think “he is serving God’s purposes.” Only after several questions does it admit that theologically God most likely would not approve. I wonder if Hitler were alive would AI give me a both sides argument.
The Governors race for Tennessee is coming up and Marsha Blackburn is running. You’d think Democrats would have been planning and developing a great candidate. Nope.
But the most noted phrase will be repeated more and more in the future. “What good is privilege if you’re still being poisoned?” No matter the political party or socioeconomic status- clean air, water, and soil are necessary.
“other iteration of Californian incompetence and hypocrisy were looking much farther afield, to Colorado, Montana, Arizona and Texas. But they did so with a newfound wariness.” This tidbit is ridiculous. Texas is full of incompetence and just lost children in a flood due to ignoring climate policy.
“Many felt betrayed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — not so much politically as personally. “Calabasas in general has been a huge supporter of his,” Ariella Schrader said. “He’s Mr. Environmental Lawyer, right? I feel completely abandoned by him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/m...
The National Guard should stand up to this authoritarian move and say no.
Where is the international and American religious community? Where is the Pope on this? I understand they have spoken out, but if there were ever a time to do a little more…
Democrats shouldn’t be giving Charlie Kirk the spotlight or joining in the hate.
We have become America the Cruel. We aren’t even a year into this Presidency.
Someone told me that nature always works its self out. 🫠
Other red states will follow and building opposition networks will be crushed in those states.
Bluesky “announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms.”
I live in TN and I was temporarily being blocked as well. People in TN and MS need access to this platform more than ever. I hope BlueSky figures this out.
I recently got an announcement saying BlueSky is not accessible in Mississippi anymore due to an age verification law. I live in TN. After a refresh, I am back on. I hope BlueSky figures this out because people in TN and MS need access to what’s happening more than anyone due to local propaganda.
A glimpse from 2023… tennesseelookout.com/2023/11/03/c...
John Roberts, his extremist right wing court, and dark money corruption are the final nail in the coffin.
Zohran reminds me very much of Obama. His smile and his personality are genuine, he gives hope, he connects with all types of people, and he has the social savvy to fight back the right.
A U.S. factory was hit by our enemy and the President of the United States does not give a shit about it. All he cares about is getting a gold badge for being a fake peace maker.
Maybe her and Stefanik can share an apartment together.
Across the country communities are fighting against data centers. Meanwhile, Memphis leaders ignore the pushback by Memphians directly affected. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
The UN is declaring famine in Gaza. I just saw video of your town hall where your team violently threw out your constituents. You are as much as a fascist as the GOP. Shame.
Americans upset about a Cracker Barrel logo but showing no empathy or anger towards a whole civilization being forcibly starved and shot at to get a bag of flour is where we morally are as a society.
Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
One of the most remarkable and impactful transformations of all human technology and civilization in history is happening right now!
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We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸
Memphis- are you proud this? “Some were explicit, bigoted and violated xAI’s rules. The company prohibits use of its bot to “promot[e] critically harming human life or to “develop bioweapons, chemical weapons, or weapons of mass destruction,” but in published, shared conversations were easily found”
Careless People should not have this much control over society.
Until disinformation is fought against and there is a demand for media to hold truth accountable there is no way forward.
What would you call this if you saw it happening in another country? apnews.com/article/redi...
Memphis is listed as a high crime city. It’s a blue dot in a red gerrymandered state that has been abused by leadership. The states policies of defunding public education, not expanding Medicaid, not increasing minimum wage, no infrastructure investment, and deregulating guns has hurt the city.
The Russ Vought administration has killed this program next year for funding young, talented, super-innovative scientists. Remember when Derek Thompson complained (naively) that NIH isn't high-risk enough? This is an example of how NIH was addressing that: launching programs to fund risky work. 1/
My latest on the Health Sec who promised to figure out what causes autism and the autism research that's been stopped along the way www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
‘Kennedy, it seems, “can’t scientifically justify any of his positions,” Jake Scott, an infectious-disease physician at Stanford, who has analyzed Kennedy’s references to studies, told me.’ @jakescottmd.bsky.social
Trump wouldn’t know what is in the Smithsonian. But the people behind the 1776 Project have always been bothered by what is in a museum and what is being taught to students. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...
Your water bill is going to spike, too. theconversation.com/data-centers...
NYT does a great job describing a senile Florida man rambling nonsense.
Good luck explaining to your grandchildren why we crossed known climate tipping points. “Oh, we wanted to let big companies pollute for free,” won’t have much appeal.
Putin has probably promised Trump to help keep Trump in office beyond his term.
“The time has now come for the world to reciprocate Ecuador’s visionary environmental leadership. Activists, legal experts and Indigenous nations who continue to defend land, water and life there are working under rapidly deteriorating conditions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
Let me get this straight: RFK Jr’s $500m cut to mRNA contracts was based on a non‑peer‑reviewed, self‑published, anti-vax bibliography authored by his cronies who are all tied to a ‘vaccine detox’ supplement company? Got it 👍 www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-ci...
Any billionaires like Bill Gates should donate to continue the work
Yes, truly incredible.
America voted for lower prices and instead they got Dementia Don and a Stephen Miller presidency. Flags look great, forget the egg prices.
I think history will look back at the failure of journalists and editors for allowing Trump’s lies in headlines. Most people don’t read behind the paywall or have short attention spans. The “misstating crime data to justify the action” should be in the headline.
Thank you so much. I’ve been trying to figure out how to turn off the AI result.